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Exchange Publishes Results of its Latest Review of Disclosure in Issuers’ Annual Reports
March 30th, 2015
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), today (Friday) published a report on the findings and recommendations from its review of issuers’ annual reports1 for the ...
London Stock Exchange stake sale earns Dubai huge profit
March 30th, 2015
Dubai has made a profit of billions of dirhams on the sale of its eight-year-old stake in the London Stock Exchange. Essa Kazim, the chairman of Borse Dubai, confirming the disposal, said the shares had been sold at a ...
Abu Dhabi’s FGB completes stake sale in brokerage
March 27th, 2015
First Gulf Bank, the second largest lender by market capitalisation in the UAE, has said a deal to sell its 45 percent stake in brokerage First Gulf Financial Services to an Abu Dhabi investment company has been completed. FGB, ...
SEC Charges Nearly Two Dozen Unregistered Broker-Dealers
March 27th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged nearly two dozen companies and individuals who regularly bought and sold securities on behalf of a suburban Chicago-based trading firm without registering with the SEC as a broker-dealer as required under the ...
We’re All Hedge Funds Now
March 26th, 2015
As negative interest rates spread from Switzerland, Japan and Germany to the rest of the developed world, people with money to invest face some life-defining choices. Retirees who need to generate 6% to avoid dipping into principal can’t get ...
Alpari (UK) Limited (in special administration) completes sale of client data to ETX Capital
March 26th, 2015
Richard Heis, Samantha Bewick and Mark Firmin, Joint Special Administrators of Alpari (UK) Limited (in special administration) (the “Company”), can confirm that an agreement has been reached for the sale of the client data to ETX Capital. An initial ...
FASB plans two new proposals to simplify accounting
March 26th, 2015
FASB took steps to simplify accounting in two areas last week when it voted to direct the board’s staff to prepare a pair of proposed Accounting Standards Updates. Upon written approval by FASB, the proposals would be exposed for ...
MF Global Trustee Seeks Court Permission to Repay Creditors
March 26th, 2015
MF Global Inc. wants court approval to pay $461 million owed to its creditors, the second such payment now that it has paid back most of its customers. In a Wednesday filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New ...
KPMG named a worldwide leader in digital enterprise strategy consulting by IDC Marketscape
March 26th, 2015
KPMG International has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Digital Enterprise Strategy Consulting Services 2015 Vendor Assessment (#254679, March 2015). The report evaluated the capabilities and business strategies of leading firms in the global digital enterprise ...
FXCM to Sell FXCM Japan
March 25th, 2015
FXCM has issued a press release informing that: FXCM Holdings, LLC and FXCM Newco, LLC (“FXCM”) have signed a definitive agreement to sell FXCM Japan Securities Co., Ltd (“FXCM Japan”) to Rakuten Securities, Inc. (“Rakuten Sec”), a top 5 ...
